I thought most people have tiles or vinyl/linoleum for their kitchen floor. Still, you do know that you can just remove and replace the damaged floorboard instead of sanding and varnishing the entire floor, right?
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In Brittain they often have carpet in the toilet. How tf do you clean that, it will get soaked with piss, you dirty fucking Brits.
I am British, lived here for 35+ years (all my life) and Iโve never seen carpet in a toilet or bathroom.
Hey it's not me experiencing urine leakages often enough to develop such presumption, buddy
You think flushing doesn't sprinkle toilet water everywhere?
Yup, just shut the cover before flushing
Mythbuster showed 20 years ago that doesnt work
Whenever a man is peeing standing up, droplets will spread around the toilet. Over the years, the buildup will be horribly unhealthy and disgusting. But for Brits who already never wash their hands, it may not be such big of a deal.
Then just don't pee standing up, I'm a dude and when I'm at comfort of my home I always choose to sit on my toilet. It's so much better that way, much more comfortable and less messy.
I always sit down, but can you be certain every other man peeing in your toilet does the same?
well fuck you for making me realize that my carpet after all may be stained with fluids that never left my belly.
Welcome to the 70's-80's when carpeting was de rigueur for bathrooms and kitchens.
Fun story ... my son was a climber so all food was in the highest cupboards. One time I needed a bathroom break, and in under 5 minutes he'd dragged a kitchen chair to the counter, climbed up, took down the flour and dumped it all over his little sister. Honest to gawd all I could see of her was her dark eyes in a cloud of white.
And just to boost his creativeness here, he decided to move the chair to the sink, grabbed a cup of water and they started making flour pies on the carpet.
Gotta love kids!
I have 3 kittens in their puberty, that's already more then I can handle. I'm skipping kids.
If your one mistake is attacking your floor with sledgehammer or jackhammer, you may have a point.
Hardwoods & bamboo will weather damn near anything.
Even dog claws will take a few years before the floor begs for a refinishing.
Mostly I have seen it to have seen it with cheaper floating options and even in the bathrooms to have a seemless consistancy throughout a condo. Never seen it done in a house.
Same people install white or cream carpets just before they decide to have kids or a party.
Throw rugs and tile in mine
Peacocking.
My wife and I had ceramic tile installed in our kitchen when we remodeled our house. Didn't like it so four years later we had it torn out and had oak flooring installed. Couldn't be happier. High quality hardwood floors are really durable.
it's very easy to sweep and mop!
I have never seen a wooden floor in a kitchen, where do you live? May as well use a carpet floor lol
Are dropping kettle bells on your wooden flooring or something ๐คฃ.
No, but cooking pots could fall and those have sharp lips which will indent the floor. Same with other hardware like cutlery.
And I will handle knives more likely in the kitchen than in the living room.
What else are you going to put in the kitchen though, carpet?
Laminate
Tiling
That's like 5x the cost though and you're likely to break anything you drop onto it like dishes or bottles.
Our kitchen has laminate plank flooring and it has held up really well. I believe it's original which means it's made it 22ish years so far with part of that time being a rental full of college kids who apparently stored all their literal garbage in the garage and put a bunch of holes in the walls.
Of course not, that's what linoleum is for
That's what I was thinking. Linoleum can be ugly and will cut/dent easy, but it's the cheapest to replace.
Ceramic tile is tough as hell and cleans easily.
No, friend dropped a steak knife tip down on theirs, took a chip out of it. From reading comments I guess they must have not sealed/varnished it.
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